Well, I just I haven't really heard people who are, you know, Look at him now. Why' you put that out? Why did you do that? I have
one battery. Hello. No. >> Oh, you know what? I was coming over to get an agenda and then I realized they were like I'm like I'm like wait a second.
So, I got one. >> That's okay. Juliet actually worked out very He didn't go very far. I'll get answers. No, it's okay. What he did was he just made You still have yours.
>> They don't have to. >> That's what That's what they told us. Please stand for the pledge of >> allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic
for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. I wish to announce that the 48 hour notice is required under the open public meetings act is emailed to the Aspbury Park Press, the co-star and the new
coaster on December the 19th of 2024, that a copy has been placed on the bulletin board in the burrow office and that a copy has been filed with the municipal clerk. Please be advised, public attendance for meetings through Zoom is a courtesy only. If for any reason Zoom fails or is disconnected,
the in-person meeting will continue without interruption and action can and will be taken provided There's an inerson form. Mr. Noble here. Miss Greenblat here. Mr. Niki here. >> Mr. Weber >> temporarily absent. He had to run home. >> Okay.
>> Uh Mayor Gutzi >> here. Thank you. Welcome everybody. Uh we're getting close to closing out the year. Just uh well, one of the first things I want to mention, we have one more scheduled meeting December 17th, but we are very likely 95% at this point
likely to insert a meeting at the end of this month. So keep your eyes on the agenda if you're really interested. Uh we're targeting November 25th for a special meeting where we'll conduct a little more burough business that we're running out of time on. So we wanted to
try to get that in. Um let's see. Uh one other thing I want to mention. We have Councilman elect Mitch Clark joining us tonight. Um the elections earlier this week uh you know our council members ran unopposed. at
least three sitting with me here. Uh Councilman Weber of course after nine years of service is uh moving on retiring at least for the time being from council and Mr. Karp has u uh agreed to run with this team and uh again the team was elected so we've
asked Mitch just to join us so he gets an idea of what it looks like uh from this perspective and effective January 1 Mitch will be up here with us. You want to just Yeah. wave to everybody or something? >> Hi. It's great to It's great to be here and uh I look forward to being
>> All right. Great. Um okay, so we we've got a pretty full agenda regarding ordinances. We've got a couple of introductions. We've got five or six uh adoptions. And the way that works when we get to it introductions, we will talk about what's going on with those
introductions. The public will not have an opportunity to comment on ordinance introductions. As always, what happens is we introduce then a few weeks go by or so till our next meeting and then we adopt. When we adopt, the public has the
ability to comment at that time. So, just letting you know that's coming. First thing we're going to do though is item number five on the agenda. uh what should be a relatively brief workshop, but there's been a lot of um conversation really over the past few months, at least among council members,
employees who help us prepare for our meetings and so forth, that should we consider moving the meeting times, 4-hour meetings. And the general idea, I'm sure many of you remember that over the years when our meetings have started
at 6:30 for a number of years now, we've had occasion where meetings ran up to 11:00 at night, 10:00 at night. I'd say this year we've had a pretty good year. We've run to 9:00 a few times, but uh but we have not hit 11 or midnight this
year. Anyway, we're going to have a workshop where we're just going to openly discuss in front of the public the pros and cons of considering whether or not we want to move our meeting times up to an earlier start time and earlier is earlier than 6:30. Uh folks have
talked about as early as 4 uh 4:30 5:00 p.m. Want to get a sense for you know what you the public think about that and that's why we want to talk about this out in the open and also you'll be able to hear our thoughts about you know the pros and cons of doing that. So with
that said, uh let's kick off the workshop for item number five and and I I'll start as I just said uh there are a few advantages to the burough to our administrative staff folks that operate Zoom uh our clerk uh
and for that matter many of us uh who uh I'll use myself as an example I'm sitting in the office here preparing for the meetings or whatever go home for an hour or two uh you know check out whatever's on home and then I come back for the meetings at night there would be
an ease of administration for certainly for a lot of the internal staff um if we could make the meeting time start a little closer to the end of the the typical business day. Uh so uh the question then becomes what does that
mean not only to us and our the ease of our operations what does it mean to our residents in terms of uh would residents applaud them because no one gets stuck here at 11 o'clock at night on a long meeting or would residents say you know you know I like coming after after
dinner or or after I've you know done whatever I'm doing at on my home personal time. So, um, I think there's at least interest in discussing whether or not we want to consider next year moving our moving our meeting times to
a, you know, somewhere between a 4:00 and a 5:00 or 5:30 start. Even many say even an hour earlier would be a lot better for many of the people preparing. What do you guys think? >> Well, we'll still have Zoom access of
course, right? I know the catalyst to this. We had a meeting about a month or so ago and it was 4:30 and about the same amount of people showed up and a lot of people tuned in and it worked out really well and um we have a business administrative that's very accessible
and he hands out his cell number to everybody. So a lot of times we can get things done without having people to even come to the meeting. So I feel like we've opened up our communication a lot more to people that they don't have to wait to have a meeting. And um I think
the employees and like you said, it's a lot easier on their day and um I'm usually in bed by 8:30, so full disclosure. So, I I like the idea of an earlier meeting, but um I'd love to hear from other council people and the public
to see what they feel as well. >> Yeah, I would just say that um you know, I'm I'm retired for the most part, so for me, the workday could be at any time. And so, you know, individual it works fine earlier or later it doesn't
really matter but I think from the public perspective if I was somebody was working your normal work day to to make it to a meeting you would have to get off early in order to come attend a meeting and and you know how often does that happen that you need to be here um you know so that's the only
inconvenience I think there is to the public is if I you know working 9 to5 or to four you know to be able to make it here to a meeting could be difficult but I think Um there's also the advantage from a financial standpoint to the administration uh to to the employees to
tighten up that workday. And again, personally, I'm I'm okay with it in either direction other than that. And Sean and John before you guys, one other thought I should have mentioned, forgot. U one goal for next year would be, you may recall, we used to have our meetings
on Tuesdays. A year ago, we moved to Wednesdays. tonight or Thursday. But uh in order to uh hopefully keep a Tuesday schedule, it would also advantage Mr. Canon, now a musful attorney, who said if we started earlier, it would make him
more available. Nothing nothing against having his partner join us. Bill, but um but that's just one of the potential advantage for us as a bureau to make sure Mr. can, you know, twice as long as you can. >> So, um, I'm accustomed to most public
meetings being in the evening because it really gives the public an opportunity to come without a compromise in their work schedule. Um, so I would be uh I would not be in favor of bringing the meetings back to like a four o'clock time. I think it's too early. And I just
I think the whole opportunity for I mean, listen, as as a governing body, this is our opportunity to um deliberate in public because that's really the only opportunity we have to deliberate. Um and so we conduct our business at these meetings. Um of course we all prepare
for the meetings and we have one-on-one conversations so we can do some consensus building but um um and I understand the from an administrative point of view that there's a gap in between and so that makes it a little difficult. I would, you know, suggest a
compromise and maybe even take it down to 5:30 and pull it back an hour, uh, if that's helpful. But I think to start it any earlier than that would not really do a service to the public. So that's kind of where I am with it. Um, I've always been accustomed and I don't know
what other communities do. I think most public meetings are in the evening for that very reason. Um, that it gives the public access. There's there's a I think I think the uh because we looked into this a little bit. I would say it's a you know broad sample but but I would
say most are in lady news. One though was at 9:00 in the mornings uh was a dealer. >> Yes. >> And one or two others are at odd hours during the day. But I think you're right. The assumption is the majority of probably
somewhere around 6:30. Mr. Weber, you've been a councilman for almost nine years. And while this won't affect you for it won't affect you for next year, do you have thoughts just on the appropriate time? >> I have one thought, Erica. Can the finish reflect that I got here 8:38?
>> Absolutely. >> Sorry. 6:30. >> Um, >> so what you're thinking about is 4 o'clock. >> No, we said somewhere earlier than 6:30. No earlier than 4. No later than >> I get it. Fun fact, I just came from a
town nowhere near here was in deep south Jersey at their meetings at 10 a.m. on Tuesday mornings. Shocking. Um, so you're right. I'm not going to be here, so I don't really have an opinion. I mean, of course, you want
the public to be able to to come and to attend. Um I think it's accurate to say we require more staff than we used to for a meeting because of Zoom and all you know things like that. So um maybe splitting it in the middle. Maybe
hearing from the public is the most important part of this because we think if you if you change it and you get it wrong, you're going to hear from them anyway. So maybe >> I have a question. >> We will. If we do change it and it's we find it's not working well, can we
change it again or we're stuck with it for the year? >> No, no, we could change it. >> Okay. >> You've got a notice for the whole year. >> But but I'm again I'm not advocating for this. I'm saying we did a horrible thing. >> We could in March we could renotice for
the rest of >> You could. >> Okay. >> All right. Um the public will be able to comment on this in a couple minutes. Uh but for us now, any other comments before we move on to the next item? >> Next item are presentations and bids.
We've scheduled >> Nope. We're They're going to get an opportunity. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Okay, no problem. >> Jane Jane is my navigator. >> Sometimes I navigate Well, >> you're new to these meetings. Jane tells me what to do a lot.
Um anyway, so for pre presentations of bids, we have best practices, inventory review, schedule, but I'm not sure if our CFO has joined us. Janette, no sign up, right?
Okay. I'm going to make a motion that um we go out of order. We'll continue with the agenda. If Janette's able to join us a little later, we'll we'll move back to this. >> Otherwise, Good. So, we're going to start building the agenda just to make it interesting
for folks. Um I uh I am told that well I know because I saw him sitting in the back. Our former mayor Gary Anglestead has joined us this evening. And while Mr. Angle is very willing to spend the entire evening uh waiting for us to get to public comment, we have made him the
offer to join us a little early. So Gary, >> thank you Mayor Council. Um about five years ago was my last meeting as mayor was smack in the middle of COVID. So it was me and I think the burough administrator and chief of police and that was it. And at the end of the
meeting, John Weber flew out of that room, scared the crap out of me and presented me with a lovely gift on behalf of the mayor and council for my years of service. So John, payback time. >> Oh, okay. So, in the words of in the words of William in the words of William
Shakespeare, I come not to bury John Weber, but to praise him. Um, it hurts a self-p profofessed uh egoomaniac to say it, but I'm hardressed to think of any elected official in the last 20 years who has had such a positive impact on our town. The accomplishments are many,
and I'm sure someone, probably John, will inform me what I might have missed, but I'll give it a try. The Bradley Beach Environmental Commission is a standard bearer not just in Bradley Beach but in the state of New Jersey for its proactive and inclusive actions under John's leadership and tourage. Bradley Beach is widely
recognized as being at the forefront of recycling awareness and recycling adherence. Recycling in Bradley Beach is a want to instead of a have to. Largely from John's efforts, Brady Beach is very well known for its beach dunes. John continually led the effort to strengthen
them during plantings, protect them, and resurrect them after Sandy. John constantly educated his fellow elected officials and the public that that body of water to our east was a living, breathing ecosystem, somewhat at peril, but beneficial to swimmers,
fishermen, surfers. He was a vigilant protector. Who knew that keeping trash can lids would protect the ocean? John knew. John worked tirelessly with our business community where Bradley Beach businesses were moving away from plastic
years before the state went in a similar direction. Beach sweeps. I never thought I would have so much fun going bottle cap, cigarette butt, bottle cap, cigarette butt. Um, thank you for those efforts. Uh, those were not just great moments
for the beach, but just a great moments for our community. John was the primary driving force behind the rebirth of a proactive shade tree commission that truly celebrates our Bradley Beach forest and works tirelessly to help it. John may deny this next one, but about
number of years ago there was a church for sale in town and uh I didn't you know I didn't know what to do and John said let's buy it. Doesn't work out. Maybe we'll flip it someday and make a lot of money. So, see you muted.
So, that's enough about John. Let's let's talk about me. Um, when I was first elected mayor and a few few years later, John joined the council. It was hilarious how a few people came up to me and said, "What are you going to do about Weber?" You know,
it was almost like they were saying Vader or, you know, I said, you know, I said, "John and I, I I just laughed. I said, John and I will be fine. We both share a passion for the town. We don't get engage in, forgive my French, petty
And John and I were more than fine. I had and always will have the utmost respect for someone who is, as John reminds me, much smarter than I am. We each brought certain distinct skills and abilities to our roles and always retained open and honest, sometimes too
honest communications. I especially enjoyed watching John's BS meter go off the charts as this vaulted political science major would tirelessly bloate during a budget meeting. You remember the movie Jaws? There was a
famous scene in Jaws when the shark was nibbling on people and that the town council got together and everybody's yelling at each other. Then you hear this screeching sound of fingernails on a chalkboard and it was Quint the fisherman who said, "I know how to do this." And John, you you are Clint and
Bradley. I know you may not respect being a narro again swilling Irish fisherman, but you are the voice of reason. I always appreciate. Anyway, John, thank you for your service to the burrow. You are leaving it much better place and you found it. You have definitely left your mark and the
burrow's residents are deeply, as I am, grateful for you. So, And I will say that uh my fun story about jumping out of that room was I I it was council president that year. It was co year and I was fond of saying afterwards that the only thing the
council asked me to do as council president is to do that. I deposit and surprise Gary at his last meeting. This was a surprise to me because it was not my last meeting, but um I hope you're enjoying the plaque or whatever it is we
treasured in somewhere. >> Thanks. >> Thank you, mayor. Uh let's see the uh Okay, we still don't have agenda, so we we'll just Janette, so we'll continue to move on. Um move to item seven on the agenda is approval of
the minutes. Uh, I will make a motion that we approve October 21, 2025 council business meeting minutes. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> M. Greenlet? >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber? >> Yes. >> Mayor Guboszi? >> Yes. >> Item eight on the agenda is public
comments. Uh, for this portion of public comments, feel free to comment, but only on things on the agenda. At the end of the meeting, you'll have a chance to comment on anything you like. uh include in your comments if you'd like any thoughts you have about the potential of changing our meeting start times. Any
comments or questions? Yes, sir. >> Good evening. Thank you for bringing my proposal to bring back the turkey chop. >> And Christian, could you just uh announce to the world your name? >> I'm Christian Pepe. Uh I'm a CB I'm a freshman at CBA and I'm trying to bring
back the uh the turkey chop on Thanksgiving morning. So the reason why I'm trying to bring this back is because I have a lot of very very good and treasured memories of my dad waking up every morning before the parade and going up and burning off all the turkey
that I'm going to eat later in the day. But uh I think for me the money that I'm raising is going to go to the Mercy Center so we could feed people who don't have any food on Thanksgiving
so they could have a good time and they could have something to eat and enjoy their Thanksgiving. >> It's wonderful. >> It's a wonderful idea. Uh and for the public's benefit, uh resolution 2025-331
will be the council uh opining as to whether or not to approve uh Christian's request to have Bradley Beach sponsor this turkey truck. So, a little bit more to come, but thank you so much for bringing that to the council's attention. >> Thank you. I really appreciate it.
>> Absolutely. >> Are you going to stay for a little while or do you need to run? Because either one's fine. Uh, I'll probably stay for a little while and then >> do whatever whatever. >> I will I will warn you it's it might be
a longer meeting. You might not want to stay if we can. Yeah, we're probably not going to stay. >> Okay, great. >> Thank you for >> any other uh public comments or questions about the agenda? Any item on the agenda?
>> Mr. Nashkin, I see your hand. >> Thank you. Paul the champion 41. I just wanted to comment on changing the hours of the council meetings. I think unless you only want to have old, retired, cranky people like me show up, um you
shouldn't have it during uh business hours. I I I vote for leaving it where it is now. >> Okay, great. Thank you. Anything else, Paul? >> Nope. >> Okay. Thank you, sir.
>> In the back, 16. I just feel the need to also say this because we are the public and if we don't get too many hands raised tonight I really don't think the meetings earlier encompasses
as many people as possible. Um I think 5:30 like Shauna have said might be the earliest time that makes sense since a 9 to5 is the regular standard time. Um I think it's important even people who work from home might have the idea of flexibility but can they really on a
Zoom I don't I don't know earlier you know than their day from when their day is over. So I just want to speak to that and I would love the turkey chop. So I thought that was great. That's it. Thanks.
>> Great. Thank you. Any other comments or questions? Okay, seeing none, we'll move on to item number nine, ordinances. And and item number nine is fairly lengthy today. We have two ordinance introductions and then as I mentioned I think six
adoptions. So the introductions the public will not have an opportunity to comment the adoptions however you will for each item. So for the first two introductions the first one is 2025-37. It's an ordinance amending chapter nine.
We refer to as traffic, but specifically we are uh going to discuss whether or not to introduce an ordinance that u changes the rules we have in place today for what what is referred to as special permit parking. And basically these are privatized handicap spots in front of
certain homes in the burough. We have certain criteria around that. Um today um there's evidence of a handicap existing needing a state placard and so forth, needing a note from a doctor. Uh one of the challenges that the burough faces is
um that there are a number of we we have limited parking and especially in the summer it's it's extremely limited and we have a number of uh spaces designated that um
uh are are currently available eligible for folks who are not full-time residents. So they'll be here for the summer months perhaps, but the challenge is we're painting that curve yellow, limiting it to only their one vehicle
near their house uh for the entire year while they may only be spending a few months in Bradley. So you know, it's a challenging situation I think for the entire council. But uh but we were thinking what can we do? We still want to make sure that we are
advocating as much as we can for individuals who are handicapped, but at the same time try to be respectful of uh all of the rest of the residents of Bradley. Uh there was a gentleman here at our last meeting who, you know, his his personal opinion was there's just
not enough spaces to go around and we should eliminate these alto together. What we're going to discuss now is u amendments that we would want to consider that might restrict these spaces a little bit more than they are today but we would not eliminate them at
least not in this draft. So with that said um you guys are all familiar with this. Would anyone like to leave the discussion? Well, yeah, I would just want to say that it's kind of old antage, one bad
apple, you know, ruins the whole bunch. And, you know, there are some abuses that have come to light in the in the burrow. Um, where people have had these spots and just retain them and and perhaps it wasn't enforced. Um, but to take it away from the people who really
need these is not the right thing to do. And so I think what we're trying to achieve and I think this ordinance is doing a pretty good job of it is is trying to tighten the rules on on you know accessibility and um the criteria in which uh somebody could actually get
a spot and um and not to prevent people who need them from getting up but to really tighten up the overall u you know um purpose which is really hey I don't have a driveway um and I live here full time and I'm disabled and I need to have
access to a vehicle. Um or my uh person who is my caregiver could provide me the access to that vehicle by having by using that spot. And so I think those are some good provisions that we've accommodated in this. Um so I think it
strikes, you know, a a good balance. I don't think the workshop that we had the other last council meeting we were going all over the place from A to Z on on different uh scenarios that could happen. And I think what we need to do is simply and I think it's what doing
this does is tighten this up to the point where if you have a driveway then you know if it's not accommodative to you then you should adjust your driveway adjust the the ramping other things but you can always pull up on the street up to and access in and out of your vehicle that
way if you don't um you know or back back out that you know out the driveway to provide access. So the bottom line is is I think um this does a pretty good job of accommodating um what people really need. I can highlight a few things. I'm not
going to read the entire order for you. It's listed on our website. Uh there's probably four well three significant changes and one modest change. The modest changes we're just bumping the fee fee that's been in place for many many years is $50. We're bumping it to
200, which sounds like a lot of of an increase, but uh there's a lot involved in maintaining these spaces, including creating a a sign that, you know, is is customized to say this parking space is for this house only. Other handicapped individuals can't park in these special
uh permanent spaces. So, we create a sign, we do the painting of the the the curb, uh we maintain that paint throughout the years. Many of these spaces place for for a decade or more. Um so there's various costs associated
with the maintenance of it, the registration process and so forth. So the easy one I would say is that we we're bumping the fee. Um probably the most significant one is we're going to this ordinance would make u these spaces available where a resident has Bradley
Beach as their primary residence. So if their primary residence is up in northern New Jersey, if it's in Florida, they would be eligible for these spaces. And as I mentioned earlier, that's largely because we don't want to take away parking for from all their neighbors for an entire year when they
would be in in Burough perhaps for the summer. A second uh significant change, I I think this is uh one that's a very logical change. We've had a very broad range of physician documentation. We do
require physicians note today, but the the notes can be very limited. My patients uh my patient needs a parking space close to the home. Literally, we've had doctors write that. So, we have created with our burough
attorney and and with other experts to help us make sure we're not in violation of HIPPA or any other uh confidentiality requirements. We've created a physician's attestation form and it basically lays out
statement that the physician must sign but the statement is precreated and pre-structured and it basically is the physician and testing that their patient really uh struggles with mobility that they have very limited mobility and maybe maybe that's a nothing. Hopefully
all the physicians thought that way anyway, but we're just getting them all to state it very clearly for the record. And the other the third one is uh historically we we have had these spaces available on county and state highways.
We really don't have the ability to authorize that. That has that goes through a permitting process with the state or the county going forward. We're not going to, our ordinance is not going to permit these because the burrow doesn't want to be in the place of
filing permits on behalf of private residents. So if if someone has a disability but lives on Ocean Avenue, uh, Brinley or Lake Terrace or Main Street, I don't think we've ever had these on Main Street anyway, but on on the other county roads, um, we won't be
completing those permits any longer. The individual can do that with their county. Those are the changes. Any other comments or questions? >> Thoughts changes? >> Okay. I will then uh again, we won't
open this to the public tonight, but you will have a shot of this in a few weeks. Um but I'll make a motion that we uh approve the introduction of 2025-37. Second, >> Mr. Noble. Yes. M green. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> yes.
>> Mayor Gutzi, >> yes. Okay, the next one is uh a pretty significant change that many of our residents have been clamoring for for years. Ordinance 2025-38 is well, it's described as amending
chapter 123, beachfront areas and adjacent waters of the buroughs revised general ordinances. What we're what we're contemplating here is um uh making beach lockers available only to residents of Bradley Beach and
residents andor property owners. U many of you may or may not know this. We have over 500 lockers today deployed on the beach with people leasing those 540 lockers give or take. We have a waiting list of 333 more
people. Many of whom some of you may in this room be on that waiting list. Many of our residents have come to meetings and said, "I've been on this waiting list five years and I've only moved two spaces." Um I I'll speak for myself. I for one I've
been on the council for five years uh between mayor and council. I was under the impression we had no choice. I thought these lockers had to be made available to all. Whether we residents of rather beach or not, uh the beach must be accessible to all. Parking must
be accessible to all, bathrooms must be accessible to all. We have learned through residents bringing it to our attention uh and then inquiry we've done with our attorneys that in fact we can discriminate in favor of our residents. So this ordinance introduction is
basically structured to say if you don't if you are not a resident a residence is not your primary residence rather beach, you're not eligible for lock. You can you can live here six months in a day and have it on your driver's license and you can get a
locker. But if you're primary residences in Florida or in upstate New Jersey or New York, you can you would not be eligible for a locker. Um >> I just want to clarify though if you if you own a home >> Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry. I paused the
police. >> I'm sorry. The other the other uh thank you the the other eligible eligibility criteria would be if you own property in Bradley Beach if you own a home in Bradley. So for example you my neighbors
on both sides of me ironically uh own a home uh they don't rent it. It it's it largely sits vacant through a large part of the year but they live here in the summer. They come down on certain weekends. They pay property taxes just like I do. Uh they have beach lock I
think. Well, I know I think they both have beach lockers, but regardless when you think about how how do you make uh these lockers which are now in high demand, how do you how are we fair to our residents, we the council have discussed, you know, one-on- ones. Um we
should recognize a homeowner who's paying taxes just like homeless who live here full-time and make them eligible to get a locker. Now, there are people who own two or three homes. They might live in one and they might rent out the other two. They may have Airbnb type
businesses, whatever. One of the uh stipulations in this new ordinance is that any one individual, anyone family unit would be allowed a maximum of one locker. So, if you own three properties and your tenants in those properties, if
they are primary residents in Bradley Beach, they are, you know, year-long renters, uh, they can get a beach locker. If if you own a property and you have three, uh, rental units on that one property, three different families could each get a beach locker because they've
got a primary residence in Bradley. But if you own a home separately and you get a locker, you don't also get a locker for owning the other property. So basically, we're trying to contain this to, you know, one locker per
individual family unit. Uh there are other tweaks to this but for the most part um so we go through because today we don't differentiate between residents and non-residents we do go through some detail here distinguishing how um what
eligibility is required as I just described it what documentation is needed the one other key feature here is uh if we do move forward with this this anticipates we may have a 100 or 200 We may have a lot of people that currently
have lockers that are renewing them every year that are not residents of Bradley Beach. They may live in Neptune, Neptune City, they may live in New York City. They can live anywhere they want. But when we change this um what this current draft stipulates is they would
uh for those individuals who are already renting lockers, they would continue they'd have the ability to renew and continue to rent this year, this coming summer. at the end of this summer uh they would not be able to renew after that. Uh the waiting list would open up
and people who are on the waiting list residents only and land land owners only would be able to then be eligible for lockers. So those are the key issues but you're all familiar with this. Any other council does a couple key things you
didn't mention. Um one is that currently the beach are in the beach utility. So those would come out of the beach utility and would be managed by the the town no longer isn't part of the beach utility which then affords us the ability to discriminate to residents
only. And then the second point that we talked about um had come uh as an option is to allow our employee the burough employees and first aid as well as um you know fire to have access to the
locker because they serve the community and we want them to spend as much time as they could in our beaches because, you know, once it's a perk for them, but also it's great to have those individuals present on our beaches in their community even though they don't live here because they work here to
serve the community. So, I think those are some key other additions that I think that are really important uh if if this was to go forward, you still um afford that. And and I know before this comment uh I know on this council, Councilman Weber, last time we brought
this up, at least in a conversation you and I had, you raised concerns about not broader grandfathering. I'll give you your chance to speak, of course. Um but we we've gone as individuals, we've gone back and forth on a few of these components. uh grandfathering doing it for one year
gives people time to transition. But clearly that's much that's much harsher if you will than uh grandfathering people for eternity until you know until they choose to not renew. Uh and and Paul to your point the employees the
discussion was you know employees not all employees live in Bradley Beach. Perhaps not all can afford it but they serve Bradley Beach. They serve our residents. We we volunteers, first aid and fire. There may be two or three employees that actually want to have a lock in rather beach and if they want
it, they will pay for it just like every resident. But we, this ordinance plans to treat them as an equal status to a resident. >> They can equally get on a wait list. >> Equally get on a wait list. >> Okay. Right. So they don't ahead of >> Correct. or maintain the locker that they may already have.
>> Correct. >> Right. >> Okay. And I just want also want to add that, you know, it's not a revenue stream. It's um the that comes in for the lockers for the for the building or maintenance of the lockers as well as the annual fee um is really to cover the
cost of maintaining the lockers and for the manpower to cut them out, put them back and so forth. Um and I know that John, you're going to talk shortly. you know, this concept of is it elitist that we are now now that we have an opportunity we see to serve our
residents and to give our residents priority to lockers uh who live locally in Bradley Beach to be able to have, you know, all of their beach chairs and everything right on the beach and then be able to simply walk or bike ride to
the beach is a great advantage. And, you know, I was amazed to see only a few days ago when I got this information that we have a weight list of 333 people. Um I imagine a bulk of these of of this weight list includes residents
because they're all identified associated with different beaches in Bradley Beach. Um you know that's uh it's fewer cars that that are come to the beach. I think also for the out oftowners that have had lockers in Bradley Beach uh they're driving they're
very often driving to Bradley Beach. They're parking there. So if they're coming with their car, they can also come with their their beach gear. Um, in a way that residents, it's a little bit more of an ownorous for those of us who are living in town um to trudge all of
our beach gear to the beach um every day unless we drive to the beach. So I mean, I don't see it as anything elitist. um you know, we as residents um have to kind of pay the price of being so fortunate to be living at the beach. Um
during the summer, you know, it's definitely an inconvenience that we deal with in our streets with parking in front of our homes. You know, some it's hard for some of us to even find parking spots um because a lot of that is beach parking because our beach parking can't accommodate all of the visitors. Um, so
I think this is really um a good opportunity for us to really take care of our residents first when we can legally do so and and I'm really in favor of this. >> Thank you, Council President.
>> Okay. Uh, how many people do you think you're going to be kicking off the privilege of having a beach locker uh as after obviously next year? >> How many 150 people? reasonable. We don't know for sure because we don't
track their addresses. But >> so you're going to kick 150 people off. Uh I'm not going to have to deal with this. You all are going to have to deal with that. Um >> those people are never ever coming to this town again. >> Just so you know. >> Okay. But you're going to add Matt. How
many full-time employees? >> Um gosh, how many times do we have currently? >> They're eligible. You're adding people to potentially they could >> but to answer your question we have roughly 45.
>> Okay. So 45 they could all get on the list >> but they won't have >> they don't they don't have lockers now. Why would they not have lockers? >> Well one or two 40 are not. >> So I'm just doing the math 45 full time
is that eligible they could get on the list and fire company. Chinese people are all eligible. >> I think is there my time on the street? There's my time to speak. >> They're eligible now. >> Teachers too. >> They're all >> employees, fire, first aid. They're all eligible.
>> Well, they may want it more because they think it's my point is we're adding much people to it and you know and we're going to we're pushing away a couple hundred people, hundreds of people that again they're never going to come to town again. They're certainly going to say bad
things. Um I have a question about the definition of property owner. Um, it says an individual was listed on the tax ro of the burrow. What if a couple's married and the house is simply in one of the spouse's names, the other spouse is not on the tax. It would seem like
the other spouse can get a locker in their their name. I was like, it's kind of limiting it to the one person. >> Okay. So, >> we don't want to give two lockers to two people. >> No, no. I'm not saying you would get two lockers, but it kind of looks like, you know, so one spouse couldn't even go
down and apply for the locker. It has to be the one that's on it. What do What do you do about um I know a lot of the tax roles, I believe, have a certain, you know, there's some LLC's on it. It's like not in a person's name. It's an LLC's name. What do you do with that?
>> There's wording in here that suggests they have to provide documentation. for example, federal license, for example, tax rules. If they can come up with other documentation, I suppose. >> Well, because this says the definition of property owner just says person.
It's not a person. It's an LLC. That's all I'm saying. I mean, it doesn't in that definition, it doesn't say. >> Okay. Um, well, >> John, but the res of that property, a full-time res,
>> right? >> Okay. If it's an LLC, the resident would have to show that they're a res. >> No, if you even if it's an LLC, you can get because you own the property. >> A lot of people put their home in LLC's, >> right? And I just the definition of
property own that out that's that. And then I know now it's not a revenues thing because that's because it's in beach utility. revenue has to equal that like we can't make money on something like beaches or
lockers. We can't once it's out of the beach utility if and you guys aren't all here one day if the town decides you know what we really need to crank up some revenue they could do that they could just make the fees such that it is a revenue making thing and that it's
going to make beach lot a lot more expensive but I'm just saying it's in the beach utility that's not even an option now so that would be an option to a future council that's uh to think about. So if you want to take the rack of all the people that you're kicking off this, that's I guess
that's your business. >> We have a letter drafted that's going to be sent by you. Well, listen, I I just want to say, yeah, there will be some very unhappy people, but um we have so many residents in town who don't have beach lockers who've been waiting for years on the
list. And um you know, who do you try and accommodate if there's an opportunity to accommodate this many residents? If indeed of the 333, a large percentage are are residents of Bradley Beach. I I personally kind of my
obligation and there is an opportunity to service the res to provide that service and we can do that. That's >> just one other thought, Mr. Mayor. Um kind of relating back to the last discussion we just had those special parking spaces. There's a time I
remember the argument because they were available to people that didn't live here full-time. So if they were property owners, they could get that special parking space. And the argument was well they pay taxes just as much as anybody else. So, if we're going to extend this courtesy to full-time resident
taxpayers, we should extend it to part-time resident taxpayers. So, one of the arguments you just gave is that, well, you know, this should go to t, you know, if you're a property owner and a taxpayer, um, I feel like that could be a slippery slope because if the waiting
list doesn't go down that much and then people are still waiting a few years and they've only moved up four spaces instead of, you know, two spaces in five years. Um, they might be arguing for that. So, you, you know, be coming back. >> Yeah. Just like we just
>> we just took this away on the special apartment meeting. We just took it away from people that pay full amount of taxes and don't live in town um full time. And so I'm saying that they could come into that's a very good point. That point I asked Mr. Can about I said you
know so keep in mind the parking spaces like the beach lockers are um nothing we're required to provide. We do it as a courtesy, as a good gesture to members of our community who are handicapped. Uh
but I asked Mr. Ken and I said, "Is that a slippery slope that you know two people side by side are both handicapped and they both you know in a house and they both pay taxes but one is only here three months out of the year." And he said that is an an element that you can distinguish
from because you're you're inconveniencing if you will you know at least the rest of that neighborhood for nine months out of the year. So, so I I pointedly asked him that just because I was aware that was a challenge. Um, and and you know, I I don't I don't disagree
with you. You know, people think I think a lot of our residents will think this is a you're number 500 on the waiting list now and they think this is a panacea. Well, you may move to 150 on the waiting list or 200 on the way. So, you're right. We're still going to have a waiting list. I think what at least I
feel is residents are going to be more understanding uh if the people ahead of them on Ellis our fellow residents what people have complained me personally about is you know you're making this available to out of counters when you don't have any
legal requirement to do so and that that's what swayed me once I found out I thought we did have a legal request once Mr. again explained that we don't that honestly swayed me as well. Any other comments?
>> Yeah, I just I agree with councelor Green that our our job here number one is to serve our residents. Number one, that's that's the number one job that we have. Second to that is okay broader community, but we have to serve our community, our residents of Grand Beach
first. And I think this does that. If there are no other comments, I will make a motion that we uh approve for introduction ordinance 2025-38 the beachfront areas and adjacent waters uh modifications we're making to beach
locker rentals. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. Mr. Green, >> yes. Mr. Wiki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> no. >> Mayor, >> yes. Under adoptions, uh we have six. Each of these adoptions, we will open up for
public comment. U bond ordinance 2025-31. I'm going to turn this over to Mr. Noiki because probably you've led the charge on much of this and just maybe a brief overview and I'll open it up to the public. Okay. Um yes, this is the bottom ordinance um related to Silven Lake. Um
currently there's a project that's happening as as we speak out there today which is the outfall and that's the uh old flume that goes out to the ocean that collapsed several years ago and DP is um uh paying for you know 75% of that
and we are cost sharing with Avon the other uh 25%. And uh we've had issued bonds for that to cover that um jointly with uh the town of Avon. Um and that project is ongoing. And what we found is
that we've also have a problem with the outlet gate. And that outlet gate which is a key functional element that controls the water elevations in the lake. And that failed several years ago. And then we put plastic up and some, you know, some boards and trying to um
control the water flow that's escaping through that gate that's failed. Uh so we identified we did some temporary repairs to it about a year and a half ago, two years ago. Uh that failed again and so we keep trying to fix it. D has agreed that um yeah, this is this isn't
necessarily a quote emergency because it didn't collapse and the water flow out yet, but it is leaking and it's an imminent failure at some point. So they've agreed that we should we we could um include that into this project
uh that is ongoing that which saves the burrows of Avon and Bradley a lot of extra dollars of going out and advertising this and contracting it separately to do a change order to that contract. And so what this ordinance does, it provides the funding because
there's three two things that the the um D said. One, you need to demonstrate that you have the money in place to do it uh in November. And two, you need to get your permits in and the design done um and be able to show that you're able to then incorporate it timely not to
delay that project. Uh so we've done those check those boxes. permits have been submitted to DEB uh for the um general permits for wetlands as well as a permit for um dam safety and um the engineering uh documents are being
advanced uh to be able to issue a change order. And this here is the last piece of that puzzle is putting the dollars in place to be able to show D that um that Avon and us are willing to support this project. We've also asked the D to come
to the table with additional funds. We know they have contingency money uh in their contract and they said, you know, if in fact uh they don't have to spend that contingency, in other words, that the existing project moves on schedule, on time uh and within costs, that
contingency money could be considered to be applied to this, which would then reduce the amount that we would have to spend in the fund. Uh so we're trying to get that to happen. And we're also trying to negotiate with the contractor ultimately to get the price as low as possible so that we can actually uh come
in under this dollar value. This is this is basically a fund to be able to um basically put enough dollars in place to make sure that we can actually issue this if in fact we don't get money additional money from D. Um but we are hopeful that we can get some money from
D if everything goes well on the existing project. Uh so that that's what this ordinance is for and so it increases uh $960,000 which is soft and hard cost for replacement of the silver lake gate which is a critical element to the functionality of the controlling of
the water levels of the level and we could have identified that that extra was it 900,000 or so gate repair as a separate bond ordinance but we thought it made more sense because it's really part of this broader project to amend the prior
bond ordinance adding the $98,000 or so. >> Correct. This is the controlling the wire that goes into this >> and this gets it done sooner which is critical. >> Yeah. Otherwise we would have had to go out um contract this and end up paying a contractor to mobilize um you know and
and all their overhead trailers out there. So all that other cost would would would have increased the cost of the burrows to do this and we would have to managed it ourselves. Here we have D on site already. The trailers are there, their inspectors are there and this comes in as part of their contract and
um helps manage it at lower cost. >> And the timing is so critical. If anyone goes to Silven Lake and looks at the area on the eastern side of Silven Lake, there's plastic that's hanging there right now. So we're like hanging on thread every time we have a storm. >> Yes. And every time and every time we
operate those it's a hand controlled gate they're call gates which are basically you know pieces of metal that you have a screw and you adjust those based on water elevations and every time we do that it gets looser and looser and you know because it's just a wooden
front with these steel gates on it and and it's falling apart. So if that gate were to fail, >> the water would either not be able to be drained out or all the water would >> overflow >> would either overflow or flow out of the lake and dry up.
>> That's why this is a critical piece of infrastructure >> into the ocean >> into the ocean. And the final point before I open it up to the public is the vast majority 75% or or so of this project is currently targeted to be funded by grant funding. not yet
determined the gate because we're hoping that we can weave that in. But the vast majority of this is still going to be fed by grant money. We borrow the money to demonstrate now that the money's available, we we approve the borrowing money, but we'll either spend the money
and then get reimbursed by the grant funding or if we can get access to the grant funding so we don't even have to formally borrow the money. But tonight, what we're talking about is approving the bureau borrow this to the extent we need it. >> Correct. >> Do we do we know the timetable for the
current project that's going on in terms of where they are? I don't know if um our VA is going to report on it or not, but um you know that that will play a role also in when the gate will get addressed and if there will be funding that'll cover some of the cost. >> Right now the project is on schedule.
They've removed they've dumped out the dunes. They've actually removed all the armoring big boulders uh and the um the old wood box is exposed. Next step is to um put in a coffer dam, remove the box
and drive new piles and then put in a 54 in steel pipe that will connect from a from a box there at Ocean Avenue um and then into the pipe into the ocean. So this that that project is scheduled to be completed here in um late winter
early early spring. So basically February time frame. And the goal here is to incorporate this into the contract if he can do this work during the winter months. >> So, thank you, Councilman. Uh, if no other comment here, let's open it up to the public. I'll make a motion that we
formally open this up to the public for any comments or questions you may have. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble, yes. >> Miss Greenlet, yes. >> Mr. Nikki, yes. >> Mr. Weber, yes. >> Mayor Guptzi, >> yes. Comments or questions? Raise your hand, please. >> This was obviously very clear to all of
you. >> Paul did a great job. Thank you. >> We've been talking about this for a while. >> We have. >> All right. I will make a motion that we approve for adoption bond ordinance 2025-31. >> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Mlab. Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber.
>> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. Ord is 2025-32. Uh this is creating a new chapter 386 for single use food service items. And I'm wondering if I might ask M Councilman Le to give us a brief.
>> Sure. Based on Gary's comments, we've done enough environmental stuff in this town. So maybe maybe we don't need to. Uh this is a what we would call a skip the stuff uh act, bill, whatever. Um skip the stuff meaning when you get takeout food, you
get a lot of often you get a lot of non-food stuff with it that you didn't necessarily ask for or want or need. Uh plastic utensils, plastic packets, all sorts of other stuff. Um, skip the stuff log, this law, the way it's read, you
can have any of that stuff. You can have all of that stuff. You just have to ask for it. Um, and that's pretty, you know, makes the default not getting all of that stuff as opposed to getting it all. Many people have a an entire drawer in their kitchen filled with this stuff and
they wanted, but they're not going. Um, so it simply changes what happens when you do when you get And that's kind of it in a nutshell. This was, you know, we had the first workshop on this. We had the first reading uh a while back and this is one
of those that just skipped a meeting. So um kind of it John there have been that gentleman you had joined us via Zoom the expert on this and others have said uh some some folks think restaurants might be against this but if it saves them money most of them.
>> Yeah. And there certainly there's some restaurants we've asked around in town. There's some that are doing this now. They do that not a law. So that's great, but my the rationale is well we can't always count on those same business owner like the business may change those businesses may come and go. So um having
it as a law probably is going to make less plastic. And yet in Red Bank where they have this there's a a survey of you know 30 restaurants or so and they were giving away 94% less stuff. don't know what that translated to on uh you know
in dollars and cents where they were giving out 94% less fewer you know utensils and you know all that other stuff um that's got to be save on money so should be safe yes >> okay I will make a motion that we open up to the public for any comments or questions
>> Mr. Noble >> yes >> Mr. Nikki >> yes >> Mr. Weber. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubos. >> Yes. Comments or questions from the public on skip the stuff? >> Okay. Seeing no comments or questions, I'll make a motion that we close the
public session and raise. >> Oh, there's no that's the person. >> Oh, yeah. >> You put in the corner. So, >> yeah. Just after we take the vote. Okay. Yes. Uh so I'll make make a motion to close the public session and approve the
uh adoption of ordinance 2025-32. Skip skip skip the stuff. >> Second, Mr. Denovo. Yeah, Miss Greenwood. Um before I I didn't have a chance to comment or ask the question because I wanted to ask you actually um how do we notify all of the businesses
of this? I understand and I had asked the question previously but we didn't come to any real understanding. So we regularly uh you know announce besides ordinance uh resolutions or ordinances that could be passed and then I was thinking is there an opportunity maybe
to actually communicate with all the businesses on this so business >> I think yes to that u I should have mentioned there's essentially a grace period in the law is three months there's going to be three months of education just getting the uh the restaurants attuned to that uh I don't
think we want to be prescriptive in the in the law to this has to happen, that has to happen. DBBCA is a great uh is a great option. I would reach out I'm going to reach out to the administrator say what what's best. I mean is it is it a letter? Is it you know does what's
best and figure out what's best but I think they follow the ECA and the environmental commission if they want to be involved and uh to do that. But we're going to have three months to do that and get up to speed in three months and that gives them a time to you know go through inventory or ramp before we get
into the you know ramp up to the spring. Well, thank you John. Absolutely. >> Um, Mr. Dicki, >> yes. >> Mr. Wer, >> yes. >> Mayor, >> yes. >> All right. Ordinance 2025-33.
Uh, this is regarding amending chapter 270 specifically about planting strips and u the the uh this is a revisit this for a second myself. But the uh the challenge with planning
trips in Bradley Beach is we have an existing ordinance that says uh as as of a certain date you can no longer anyone who's before the state is grandfathered. Anyone after the state can't put things like pavers and uh uh what's it called?
Astroturf and uh and other things in the planting strip. The problem with that is nobody within the burough has a record of exactly who had these things and who didn't have these things as of that date which was over a decade ago. So largely
what we're doing here is we've changed wording to say we're getting away from measuring it as of any particular effective date and calling it grandfathered. Instead we're still saying these same things are are not uh to be approved not allowed in the
burrow. that's not changing. But instead of tying it to some old date, we're just saying at the time you have a a CCO, a change in current occupancy, at that time you've got to make it right. So if you're selling your house and the new buyer's coming in, they've got to pull
the the astroturf out of the planning strip. They've got to pull the papers out of the planning strip. But it's just a way for the burrow to get back to a a state a state that we want that we desire which is to have grass instead of other things occupying our landing strip
bushes that could block line of sight to cars and so forth. So uh that's that's the idea here. We're really just making it a more definitive process to get the town pack to the place we'd like it to be. Comments or questions from the council? I'll just say that, you know,
the it's going to bring more of a uniform look and it's going to improve the look of the town from the streets of the curb appeal and just know there's going to be grass and there's going to be trees and there be not much else. Um, I do hope that people that have bushes
or shrubs on their property will not wait until they do some kind of change of occupancy and need a need a CO and just take it upon themselves for safety reasons. So, just get rid of push put down some grass and grass.
Yeah, we had a lengthy discussion on this couple meetings. >> Any other comments, questions for council? >> Okay, I'll make a motion we open up to the public to ask any questions or make any comments you have on the 2025-33
amendments to the planners. >> Mr. Noble, yes. Mr. Greenland, yes. >> Mr. Noiki, yes. >> Mr. Weber, yes. >> Mayor Gubosi, >> yes. comments or questions from the public? >> Okay, great. Seeing none, I'll make a motion that we close public session. And
we have an open >> Yes, sir. Mr. Champion. Okay. Thank you. on the champion 411 after rain. I think I last time we had a workshop on this or discussion I mentioned that actually
having a pathway going through the planning strip is very handy for people with mobility problems and getting to their cars or getting out of a car and visiting somebody. Um, and I I I really
think it's a shame that that we're getting we're effectively outlawing those. When somebody uh buys a new property, they they will not be able to maintain that that little sidewalk going
the street. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you for your comment. Other comments or questions? Okay. Um, I will make a motion that we formally close the public session and adopt
2025-33 plan. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble? >> Yes. >> Mlet? >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki? >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber? >> Yes. >> Mayor Kubzi? >> Yes. >> 2025-34
is uh an increase in zoning fees. This is actually pretty straightforward. We we had not had a zoning permit increase in at least a decade. We couldn't pin down exactly when the last one was uh updated, but the current zoning permit fee is $45. We're bumping that to $75.
Uh again, it's been over a decade. And there's a thing called the zoning determination, which I'm told by our zoning department. As far as they know, no one's ever asked them to do this. Uh there's a current fee for that, and I'll explain it in a second. We charge $100.
Same thing. It's been that way for many years. We're moving that to $150. The reality is nobody seems to utilize the service. But especially realtors, I'm told, are usually the ones who if they're helping you sell your house and they want to attest to potential buyers
that everything's good, it's selling the right way, the fence is not too far away or too close to your yard or your neighbor's yard or whatever, you can come in. In this case, now you pay $150. Our zoning officer would go through our records, go through the, you know, the
files we have and give an attestation that the the house is compliant. So, that's the idea of it. Again, no one tends to use it, but we if anyone needs that, we bump the fee from $1 to $150. Any other That's really all that's
happening here. Any other comments or questions? Make a motion that we open it to the public for comments or questions. >> Sir, >> Mr. Noble? Yes. Mr. Green? Yes. >> Mr. Noiki? Yes. Mr. Weber? >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi? >> Yes. Comments or questions? Ladies and
gentlemen, >> are these things on? >> We've been doing this a lot though. >> All right. Seeing no questions in Zoom either, I'll make a motion that we close the public session and we adopt uh 2025-34
the increase in zoning fees. Second, >> Mr. Noble, yes. >> Mr. Green, yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi, >> yes. Okay, two to go. Ordinance 2025-35 is basically uh replacing chap current
chapter 120 in our in our ecode uh related to bamboo and invasive plants. And what's really happening here is we have an ordinance that's largely ineffective in our efforts to regulate bamboo. The key problem with bamboo is
experts tell us and and apparently this is their reality. They never know if they're trying to remove it, if they got it all out without coming back to inspect it a year later. Uh we don't have any requirement yet to come back to inspect a year later. Uh we don't have
any uh official fines in place to uh uh for folks who are um not managing their bamboo. Again, bamboo can be a problem not only for the owner of the property but for adjacent property. So this is an effort to better control uh the planting
andor spreading of bamboo in in the in the burrow. So we've in included in here now additional definitions around fines uh and different and additional definitions around times of inspection to make sure that bamboo removal has
been completed. That's largely what's happening here. Any comments or questions? >> Council comment this time. >> Okay. Uh, make a motion that we open it to the public for comments or questions on 2025-35. >> Second. I have a question. >> One second. One second.
>> Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> M. Greenblat. >> Yes. >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber? >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Virtue. >> Mary. >> Come on up. >> Um, we we have a problem. We don't have
Could you just state your name and address, please? Mary virtue 420 moment. >> Thank you. >> We have a problem with neighbors that and it's spreading all over the place now. They won't let anybody in the yard to inspect anything.
So what do you do about that? She's really, you know, >> we we have this issue all over town and we have a solution for you. Matt, do you want to take it offline or do you want to give a quick summary now? >> Yeah. Um here's uh my card, my son on
it. Just give me a call tomorrow. We'll go send a code before. >> Oh, we've had this issue and our code enforcement will he has he has authority to add to the property. >> Yeah, every every
worse >> I get it. It is getting worse >> and we really >> they grow fast. >> Yeah. and you can't stop them. Part of our old ordinance that we're changing, well, we're leaving it in, but we know it's relatively ineffective. Our old ordinance says you put a metal sheet 3
ft down. Now, we've been told subsequent to adopting that ordinance, which was a couple years ago, that basically metal doesn't stop bamboo. If given enough time, it'll find its way around. >> So, but what we've also found is we we can aggressively enforce this and we
want to take the pressure off of the neighbors. We don't want neighbors having to tattle on neighbors, >> right? >> U so uh code is doing our best. For example, there's one house that I won't mention addresses, but this one house was pretty close to the street
>> and you know code had code talked to that person. That person brought a lawyer and we still were able to reach an understanding that they had to better manage their bamboo. So u so please let Mr. Dohy know. We'll definitely get on. Yeah, give me a call anytime after 4:30
in the morning. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Any other comments or questions from the audience? >> Okay, seeing none, I'll motion to close the public comment and uh and approve
adoption of where am I? 2025-35. >> Mr. Noble. Yes. Mr. Relet. >> Yes. Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> yes. >> Mayor Dubet, >> yes. And last but not least, ordinance 2025-36. We saved another pretty easy
one for last. Chapter 160 is being amended. A handful, four or five construction code fees, fees for construction permits and so forth. Uh we had already changed these once, but they didn't align with uh uniform
construction code guidelines for a couple of these fees. So this is just making amendments to make sure that the fees for those four or five areas are now aligned with the UCCC. So it's somewhat of an administrative amendment. >> Comments or questions? >> Looks good.
>> All right. I make a motion and we open it to the public for comments or questions. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Green, yes. >> Mr. Nikki, yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> yes. >> Mayor Guposi, >> yes. >> Uh, public comments or questions about our uniform construction code fees?
Okay, seeing none, I'll make a motion we close the public session and uh adopt ordinance 2025-36. >> Second, Mr. Noble. Uh, yes. Miss Blet, yes. Mr. Niki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber,
>> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi, >> yes. Okay. Item 10 on the agenda is communications. There are none. Item 11 are resolutions and we have a number of them. We'll start with uh individual
resolution 2025-328 our bill list which normally is at the end of our resolutions right >> but do we >> yeah it's yeah >> okay just confused me I thought we were done uh uh comments or questions from
the council >> my questions were answered thank you as were mine thank you >> who's asking all these questions >> oh the mayor >> Mr. All right. Um, with no other questions, I'll make a motion that we approve
individual resolution 2025 326 bill of November 6. >> Second. >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Dlet, >> yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> yes. >> Mayori, >> yes. 2025-329. We have good news uh that our own
Tiffany Depressi has passed her registar uh licensing exam and we are u making a resolution to name her as alternate deputy registar appointment. >> I'll make that motion.
>> Second. Mr. Noble, >> congratulations to Tiffany. >> Yes. >> Miss Greenwood. Yes. >> Mr. Nikki. >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber. >> Yes. Mayor. >> Yes. 2025-330 amending resolution 2025-250 requesting the New Jersey Department of
Transportation change to parking space time limit on the west side of Main Street. What this is in the front of our hall, we have the space board. They're not delineated, but roughly uh seven parking spaces where people can park there for a limit of 15 minutes. And
many of you may remember that a while back as we reconfiguring our own parking, municipal parking lot so that the public could park there. At that time, we passed an ordinance. Now, that's keep in mind the the main street right here is state highway. We needed the state's permission. We passed an
ordinance saying we're taking we're stopping the 15minute. We're going to expand those seven spots to be uh 2hour limit to enable visitors to go to restaurants and you know not just have to leave in 15 minutes. uh the state had
given us verbal approval to do so but subsequent to that they've given us very specific language they'd like us to use what this resolution is doing is adopting the state specific language is basically saying the same thing that we'll be able to move this class from 15
minutes to two hours so with that u comments or questions for the council >> I just have a comment because I had asked the question um and I I got an answer thank you >> and that was um you know from 8 to 6 p.m. is what was needed to be included
in that um for two-hour parking on that area. And so my understanding is is that now it aligns with the rest of the street or the rest of a portion of Main Street or Route 71. Um so I I guess
after 6 p.m. cars can park for more than two hours at a time and cars can park overnight on Main Street. Is that correct? >> I'm not sure about overnight. >> Yes, they can. >> They can. Don't forget people live along main street. >> So yeah, they can uh so it works out
really well. They come home from work, you know, they can park at 6 because you got two hours there and then they can stay overnight. >> And now our own lot. I don't have a furry, but I believe uh >> that might >> that's up to eight hours, >> right? Yeah. >> 8:00. >> Yeah, I'm pretty sure. >> But it's not two hour parking along all
of >> that. I don't know. I believe is >> I think it is. >> I think it is. I understand >> south of South
L. >> And I just like to say that one of the businesses very close to these spots should has been asking for this for a very long time. Thankfully, they're still here and they're still in business and this this should make them very happy. >> And I don't have the exact numbers in front I we've shared with public before,
but basically based on the reconfiguring we did here, the fire department uh who really controls they have a many lease with the burrow. So, they control the fire uh department hall. They've allowed parking over there. They have graciously
allowed our burrow employees to park in in some of those spaces during the day. them allowing us to have an extra as many as 10 spaces and reconfigure we did in our main lot and adding these spots total we've added we did capacity for 10
or more spots for the public to utilize for visiting our restaurants and our shops. So it worked out to be pretty good horse trading exercises all around. So, um, with that said, I will make a motion that we approve 2025-330
amending resolution 2025-250. >> Second, >> Mr. Noble, yes. >> Mr. Green, yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubossi, >> yes. >> 2025-331 is the approval of a turkey run that uh
the young man earlier, Christian, spoke to us about. Mr. Mr. Gordy, can you just give the the public a quick overview of the background on that because I know you were instrumental in working with that. >> No. Uh yes. So, uh there had been a turkey trot run in the past that
benefited the pond in Avon. People remember what that was. It was a ice skating rink sort of by the the train tracks in Avon. Uh that pond is no longer there. Doesn't operate anymore. So, the uh turkey trot kind of just fades away. So, uh, this young
gentleman, uh, again, he's a sophomore at CBA who lives on Burlington Avenue here in Beverly Beach, approached the burrow and said, you know, I'd like to bring something back. Uh, I know this is the first year for it. Um, so he wanted to keep the expenses as low as possible.
So, they're going to stay on the promin. Uh, start at the gazebo, go north to Ocean Grove, uh, stop before getting to Ocean Grove, turn around, head south to Avon, stop before getting there because who wants to go on Avon anyway, and then come back to the gazebo and finish
there. So, it's not exactly like a 5K. It's around two milesish. U, but it's a, you know, it's a good community event. uh the the the morning of Thanksgiving. Uh like he said, it's a good time to get a little exercise in
before we uh become uh glutton for the rest of the day. Uh and the money he's raising, as he mentioned, is going to the Mercy Center, which is in Asbury Park. Um they do a tremendous job, and one of the things they have now that's so important
is a food pantry um that gets utilized by all the the families in the surrounding communities. So, uh, we're going to be able to do this, um, without any expense to the police, uh, without any expense to Department of Public Works. Uh, I myself am going to run the
Turkey Trot very slowly. Um, and, uh, I know that our our DPW director, Baja Capone, also offered to come and volunteer his time in case there is anything to clean up afterwards. So both Yajio and I will be there to ensure that
once the race is done uh the promot is as clean as it was before. >> My understanding is you're expecting to win this race. >> I am I am expected to win this race. True. Gobble gobble. But I'm not sure if I'll be able to to meet that expectation there.
>> Is Christian fundraising for this? >> Uh yes. Yes. So all the funds that are raised uh will go to Mercy Center in >> So a flyer or something where we can find out how to >> uh yeah, they wanted to wait until you approved it as the governing body and
then they'll begin all that. I will make sure to get it to all the members of council. We'll put it on our newsletter that Amy Baker puts out and try to get the word out as far as we can. >> And I know this this is a bit unusual in
that Christian doesn't represent a 501c3 typically. nonprofits coming to us through events like this and and we went through a pretty good air led by Mr. Gordy uh to make sure that we had some confirmation
that all proceeds net proceeds would go to the nursery center uh that he would stay on the boardwalk because at one point there was this discussion that they would go down to the boundary with that on and we said no no you can't be on the street where we got police
requirements. So uh I think Mr. already explained this to me, brought it to my attention. We got to a point where we said, you know, we can control this. It's a nice gesture, nice festive thing for Brev to host uh with minimal resources to vote from RA Beach. So, we
thought it would be worth bringing to the council, >> right? And also think it's nice that, you know, you have a 14year-old boy in your community that is trying to do something positive. Um, so, you know, I I somewhat tortured him by making him speak in front of you, Paul. uh which is
nerve-wracking for anyone let alone a 14-year-old. Um but you know, you did a good job and and you know, this is the type of character I think you want to develop in a small community like Beach. >> Very good. So, thank you Matt for doing that. In case anyone doesn't know, Matt was like what? State champion or county champion.
>> Uh two-time state champion. Yes, sir. >> Two time state champion. >> Thank you for pointing that out. >> M high school >> uh last century in Turkey. >> Yeah. What? >> You know what? >> Diminish it all you like. Councilman Noiki. I was very proud of those awards last night.
>> But uh I found that out. I was very impressed that he really was a state champion a couple times over. I did not realize that. And you were actually fairly accomplished in college too. >> Yes. Yes. Yes. >> So you you could brag about that another time. >> That I'll save that for Anthony. But
needless to say, any kind of running event is near and dear to that part. So with that said, I will make a motion that we approve 2025-331, the turkey run/walk event for November 27th, 7:30 in the morning till 12 p.m. >> Mr. Noble,
>> yes. >> Mlet, >> Mr. Nikki? >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber? >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi? >> Yes. 2025-332 approving the annual bonfire for Friday, November 28th, 2025. Any concerts?
>> I just say this is a great event. >> It's it's just a great thing for the family, you know, right after Thanksgiving. It's wonderful. >> I will say out loud, I want the town to consider moving into a different beach in the future because this is the by my
estimation the smallest beach in moving all that sand before and after I think just makes it the road more. big wide beaches like Evergreen or New York if so next year I'm considering
>> okay making a note to that maybe they're trying to centralize it but it doesn't make sense I don't know why it's there gazebo >> yeah but there's no beach entrance of the gazebo it was just uh it's actually Gary Gary I remember asked permission
said he was nervous you have any problem meaning environmental That sounds like a great event. So, uh, that's when that tradition started. So, I don't know whether it could be a fire. We probably check fires, but
>> All right. Any if no other comments, I'll make a motion that we approve 2025-332 bonfires November 28th. Second, >> Mr. Noble? Yes. M. Green. Yes. Mr. Nikki. Yes. >> Mr. Weber. >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi. >> Yes. 2025-333
resolution authorizing a one-year lease extension for the 2026 surf camp. Everything the burrow hears is wonderful things about this organization. They do a great job. Parents tell us their kids love it. So, uh I think it's a, you know, just a great organization to keep
partnering with. Any comments or questions? >> I took a lesson there. >> Did you really? >> It was excellent. >> Yeah. >> Did you stand up on the board? >> No, but I dreamt about it. So why a lease extension and not a new lease for you know
>> I think they're just I think they're just exercising an option that's in the the lease and after this one >> yeah this is the third year and then it goes up again >> next year. >> Okay I'll make a motion that we approve 2025-333
the one-year lease extension for surf camp >> Mr. Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Miss Greenl, yes. Mr. Nikki, yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> yes. >> Mayor Guboszi, >> yes. 2025-334 is authorizing a one-year lease extension agreement for the 2026
volleyball clinics. Any comments or questions? I'll make a motion that we approve 2025-334 for volleyball clinics. Second, >> Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Mr. Green, yes. Mr. Noiki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> yes. >> Mayor Gubosi,
>> yes. Okay. 335, I'm sorry, 2025-335 is establishing the 2026 seasonal beach badge prices and sale dates. Now, uh just
we the council is looking at a a blank uh current resolution because we need to fill in prices, but the current prices for the se these are seasonal badges. The current prices for adult $90 and this is without discounting. We do have
some early discounts, early sales discounts. Senior citizens 30 and 65 and over $35. Juniors 13, 14, and 15 $35. So those are current prices. Any discussion as to whether or not we should adjust the prices up or down?
>> I actually took a look at um 2021 to 2025 just to see the trajectory of the the pricing. Um so for the past um from 2021 to 2023 uh we kept prices stable at $80 um for
the season for adults. Um then 2024 bumped it up to 85 and then last year bumped it up to 90. Um then for senior and junior badges um in 2023 we bumped it up from 30 to 35. Then we bumped it
up again in 2024 to 37. Then we brought it down last year to $35 for senior and junior. And um uh so you know now we're at um I guess last year with $90.
I just tried to do some sort of analysis to see you know if we were going to keep on increasing or if we were going to try to stay stable. >> I think the challenge that since I've been up here for five years now. Um there's always one question asked which is what's everybody else doing and in
fact dailies people get you know municipalities get pretty close seasonal badges you know there's sometimes apples oranges and grapes as you try to compare prices um but my typical reaction is you how are just how's the beach running
profit wise revenue wise I shouldn't say profit but are we covering expenses are we generating at least small margins because margins are good because sooner or later we're going to a bad weather summer and we're going to give up a lot of those that surplus. So, in general, I
like it when we're adding 50 grand, 100, even 150. If it looks like any more than that, like this past year, for example, was a good revenue year. We don't yet have all the expense data. Revenue was a good year. We had good weather. >> Yeah, it was a good revenue year, but
for example, we had a lot of uh debt service added last year, and that's what students. That's where we bumped some of the dollars a little bit last year. Uh we're probably going to have a little more debt service. We're talking about the
concession and the bathrooms for example at 54 ocean. Um but my sense of this is you know our as trustees of this um beach utility my sense is that revenue right now based on reasonable weather
assumptions should be sufficient. So, I would suggest we don't adjust the badges that I have had people I have had residents say you should bump them something. And by the way, we're talking about roughly half of the badge revenue. The other half is individual prices,
which we won't set until early next year. >> Right. A quick question. The the DPW contract got settled earlier this year. Obviously, obviously there's an increase. Some of the increased costs of labor, you know, get attributed to the beach. So,
given what you just said like even considering that you think we can still keep it keep this stable? >> I it's a great question. Uh I don't have any definitive data that I can say we like I did last year when I said we should increase the rates. Mayor agreed
with me and you guys the council uh entering this year and I think we had a good year to follow but entering this year we had a surplus of roughly 700,000. >> So that was pretty that's good. That's better than we've had it. We had that one crazy year where it spiked because
of CO, but typically our our surplus has been closer to 400 communities, most 500. We got to a million co year, but right now at 700,000, that's a pretty healthy surplus on a 2.5 million clothing budget. So, I don't I mean, if
anybody wanted to suggest bumping the price a dollar or two, >> the daily at what 13? >> Yeah. Yeah. We haven't adjusted 206 yet. These aren't discounted. It's just correct. >> Right. The discount goes to $80 for the
adult. >> It did last year. >> It did last year. Yeah. >> We could set up the discount, too, right? The early bird discount. >> Yeah. There's Okay. So, there's a seasonal um a holiday uh sale that's $70. That's between That's for the month
of December. And then after December, it's $80. Um that's the preseason price. And then uh after January it goes to 90 anybody that comes in. >> And I guess to to give you guys all one other thought um
$1 increase or decrease on the dailies uh equates to $100,000 because we sell about 100 110,000 dailies every most years. Um $10 on these on
average across all. So maybe a little more on the adult and a little less on the others, but roughly a $10 piece overall here would be the same $100,000. >> I'm just going to point out one thing. If we put this as is
that has 2024 dates, the dates are >> No, that I gave everybody a 2024 resolution so they could compare >> so they had so in case they Yeah. >> Oh, you have the blank. >> Yeah, you have the blank on that. That's okay.
>> So, I mean, is there thought to increase or decrease these a couple bucks? Leave it the same. What do you >> think it was enough money collected to run successfully and have extra? Like you said, the surplus is 700,000. I feel comfortable with that. I would say the same. >> Yeah. One other thing I'll throw out
just so you, you know, have this in the back of your mind. Next year, the hope, just as I talked to Baja, director of DPW, the hope is to add one probably one ramp. These ramps go for over $200,000, but right now we have half of our beach
entrance is basically the ramps. Over time, we'd like to add the ramp a year maybe, but that's a couple hundred right there. We do have the concession that we're hoping to have up and running by Memorial Day and we'd like to add another 100,000 of those super wide
temple wide mats. Uh we think a 100,000 could get covered three more beaches. So 100,000 there, you know, maybe 200,000 for a ramp, maybe another 100,000 or so. We could be spending we could be trying to spend 400,000 in beach enhancements
by 26 and you have capital program the bathrooms you're going to be doing a common extension a year from now and you have the outall that's currently under construction. So those are some big those are you know you have to finance
those. So you know I would say that what we should be doing is having CFO do this and do a projection on this for us as well b debt service and you know maybe look at some ranges and maybe I would be okay leaving it this year but knowing that
there's a more likelihood that next year we might have to based on some financial analysis >> she's done to your point well Matt asked her to do a preliminary analysis for you know how the prior year ended we don't have really concrete
expenditure numbers yet some of those expenditures tie to how we allocate dollars from uh you know salaries from the DPW or the police or whatever. So that exercise we haven't completed yet. However, uh she felt we're likely to
have at least a few hundred,000 of added surplus. So maybe bring some 700 to nine. So we're feeling like we're in a very healthy state if we spend that if we do it very openly and the full uh public disclo disclosure. But you know
that's the idea. We're supposed to take profits and margins and reinvest them in the beach. So if we do some of these things, we should still be able to have a significant surplus afterwards. >> We maintain the prices for this coming
season and then detailed analysis and and closer for next year. >> Make a motion. I'll make a motion. >> Second. >> Are you passing this resolution or to the same numbers.
>> Yeah, that's okay. Um, >> okay. So, keeping it the same as from 2024. Got it. Okay. >> And who 20 2025 being maintained 2024? >> $90, $35, and $35.
>> Okay. and you're comfortable with um the holiday sale or the holiday sale fee still being 70 and preseason still being 80 for December and January. >> So what when is the holiday? >> So the holiday sale starts December 1st. >> Okay. >> Okay. And it runs to December 30th and
it's se the seasonal badges are $70. The adult seasonal badges. >> I thought I got the information. >> Okay. No. So for the month of December, it's $70 and then there's and then there's a preseason sale after December
for the whole month of January. And then that's the $80. You comfortable with those two phrases? Okay, good. >> All right, move to the second. >> Thank you, Mr. Noble. Yes. >> M. Greenbot, yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> yes. >> Mayor Dzi,
>> yes. Item 2025-336. It's a resolution uh structure to reject the bids we received on the Ocean Avenue project to uh convert bathrooms and and concession. We were going to reject
these bids because quite honestly they all came higher than we expected. We didn't budget enough for the prices that people quoted. However, um I'm going to make a motion in a second that we don't vote on this tonight because um Mr. majority and our engineer are in
discussions with the low bidder. Of course, we would or would not hire because he's a low bidder, but uh we may not have to include his entire scope and then the fees will come down dramatically and then we can move forward. So, I'm going to make a motion for now that we just table this and if
we need to reject bids, we can do that at our next meeting. >> Second. >> Um Mr. Noble, >> yes. >> Miss Greenlat, yes. >> Mr. Nikki, >> yes. >> Mr. Weber, >> yes. Mayor. >> Yes. And uh final individual resolution
2025-337 award of proposal for professional engineering services for CME for this project at 54 Ocean Avenue reutilization of existing building. And uh any comments or questions? >> I had asked a question which was
answered um and that was um we have a $50,000 grant for that and at this point is coming in at 688 for all of the the soft cost, right? But I think Paul, you had clarified that there was some fees
that weren't included. >> Yeah. So the initial proposal my understanding was for preliminary schematic and preliminary design and then what wasn't included was the um file design advertisement and the
engineering services during construction which includes construction administration and so that's the additional cost that is being requested in this resolution. >> Okay. So that additional since the grant is for 50,000 the additional 188 is
going to come out of the um the beach utility. Okay. So it's not coming out of the municipal dollars. >> Correct. >> Okay. >> Any other comments or questions? >> Make no good. Thank you. >> I'll make a motion that we approve
2025-337. >> Second. Mr. Noble. >> Yes. >> Miss Greenwood. >> Yes. >> Mr. Noiki? >> Yes. >> Mr. Weber? >> Yes. >> Mayor Gubosi? Yes, ladies and gentlemen, we are coming down the home stretch. Item 12, announcements. We have none.
Item 13A, the thing we all wait for, the administrative report. Mr. Dhy. Uh, thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, I just want to update the council and the residents on a few of the projects going on in town. Um, you may have noticed there's some disruption on Fifth Avenue.
Uh, the sewer line is nearing completion. Um, unfortunately, we're probably not going to be able to pave the road and make it nice and smooth until sometime in the spring. Uh, the reason why is asphalt plants start closing down when weather gets cold. Um,
so they're going to do their very best and work with DPW in case um, you know, one of our concerns is we haven't had a lot of snow in a long time. It may be due for a snowstorm. So we want able to plow that road without destroying the the underlying work that was done. So um
the uh DPW is working with the contractor to ensure that the way that they um put down the temporary surface uh is going to line up well with them if they have to uh if they have to plan in the in the winter. Uh the second one, the recreation uh playground area has
come along very well. Uh the equipment is put in, the surface is done. Uh, and this is a real state-of-the-art surface. Uh, remarkable, um, especially for children if they ever fall or tumble. Um, it's the best type of surface out
there. Um, the, uh, the the striping for the courts and the pickle ball courts uh, will be done uh, soon, but the surface itself again probably won't be done for the spring. and we uh will have the project done by the end of this
month when it comes to the playground. But there'll be a we anticipate a much grander opening sometime in the spring when it becomes, you know, better weather for the use of the courts and the playground itself. Uh but both of those are are coming along very well.
And uh I wanted to say something about Sil Lake, but of course, Councilman Nikki stole all my thunder and everything I was going to say because he knows it better than I do. So, but what's going on with Silven Lake? >> Yeah. Well,
>> that's impressive construction that's going on out there. It's a great thing to be able to go by and watch a little bit of it. It's pretty impressive. >> It is. And the contractor again is is doing a very good job. So, >> that's all that's all I have tonight. >> That's great. Thank you. Thanks for your
help, too, man. >> Okay. After the administrative report, we have mayor and council reports. Let me tonight start with council one green. >> Um recreation uh the recreation board has not met since our last council meeting.
I'll just share a few announcements that I repeat um at every council meeting. Uh ma open play runs every Friday 1 to 3 at the Bazi Center. The senior club meets this Wednesday uh not this Wednesday, Wednesday, November 19th at noon. Senior
Game Time Tuesdays is back the first and third Tuesday of each month. Uh bring your own game and join friends at the Byza Center for Fun and Community Fellowship. Students in grades 5 through 12 are invited to participate in the art club which runs every Wednesday 5:00 p. p.m.
at the Neptune City Community Center and that's at 117 Thrin Shop. There's also the glitter and glue crew every Tuesday and Thursday morning from 11:30 to 12:15. It's a fun craft group for children ages 2 to 5. Uh the
ghoulish gathering was held October 24th. It was a success despite its change in location. It was at the Evergreen Beach. Uh thanks to Unwaaste and our very own John Weber um who made the event environmentally friendly by
composting the pumpkins. Uh the fourth annual Halloween trunk or treat was a great turnout and fun for all. Um Rep gave away a giant Halloween trophy to the best decorated trunk and it went to the aliens and cows.
The rec committee ne committee's next meeting will be Monday, November 10th at 6 pm. Uh the arts council met Monday, November 3rd. Um arts council member Gwen Rosenblat will perform on flute and piano at Abu Data's Shabbat Project.
Saturday, November 8th at 7 p.m. 301 McCabe Avenue. The whole community is invited to attend. Pizza will be served. No need to register. Their next meeting is scheduled for Monday, December 1st, 10:30 a.m. at the Bazi Center. And the
Fletcher Lake Commission has not met since our last meeting. Thanks to the collective efforts of Neptune and Bradley's public works for managing the levels of Fletcher Lake in the face of the storm we had October 30th. Residents should be aware that when there's an anticipated weather event, the towns
will ensure to monitor lake levels and adjust accordingly. The airator light was set was just installed in one fountain in the lake. A number of residents have remarked on them with appreciation. Airators will be removed shortly for the winter season. The next
uh Fletcher Lake Commission meeting is November 13th at 6 PM in this council chamber. That's my report. >> Thank you, Council Council. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh I want to start by saying congratulations to all the council members up here for their
resounding victories on election night and to Mr. Karp the high vote getter sitting down here who say properly seated here at a council meeting uh and I'm assuming given access to all the stuff that we got access to
um wasn't that way when I got on but apparently this is the way to do it and uh we've been doing it that way for a while um just want to recognize the clerk puts in a very long day on election day so thank you Eric as do the poll workers some of whom live here and
some of whom do not. But it's like a I don't even not want to know how long a day it is, but for the pole workers it's like a 16 hour day. It's never so >> actually it was an 18 hour day. >> I was going to say a little bit more. Oh my goodness. Um signed up for but yes,
thank you because uh it's all needed to to make our democracy work. And thanks to the firehouse for the firehouse they had all set up and uh let us be there all day. Um speaking about the firehouse moving into environmental stuff, but the
firehouse installed water bottle filling stations kind of like we have up at the the ocean front uh because they told us they said you know the fire they train there a lot there's weight equipment they can do like you know um physical fitness training and they have their
regular training and they just drink presidente especially the young guys like they drink a ton of water and he's like just going to do water bottle filling stations and stop all this And that was great. The environmental commission kind of helped them with the cost of that and to find use of the
environmental commission's money. Um, so that's done. And Todd, I think he's the president. He's still president. Yeah. >> He said home run. It's great. They look great and they're functioning great and reducing waste. Um, more stuff about the environmental commission. They were
looking at some changes to the ordinance that governs them and we finally got the feedback on what they can and cannot change. So, we're going to look for that and a council agenda in the near future. Um, Counciloman Green mentioned this, but
yes, before Halloween, the rec department had the pumpkin chucking event. Uh, there was a big slingshot involved. It was I had visions of these things like going like hundreds of yards and across the It wasn't like that, but um it was supposedly little kids going and like, you know, they get halfway across this room. There's a little
target to do that. Anyway, but the pumpkins didn't fair so well, but they did all get composted. Again, the environmental commissions used some of their funds to make sure that that happened, which I think is totally appropriate. Um, I do have a question. It's a legit question about the whole
silic thing. Uh, some members of the environmental commission pointed out that there was a Ruters field monitoring station in that area. At the very least, it was like an anometer measure wind speed. It might have been measuring some other environmental things. And it was right in that whole area that got
excavated. Any idea what happened to that or if it's coming back or >> Well, I do know Mammoth University comes out and samples as part of, you know, I've not heard of Ruckers. >> I think this is different. Do you know that there was like some equipment out there?
>> I think Ruckers took a leather station. >> Ruckers took it back, you said. Yeah, like a mini weather station. Yeah. You think Ruckers took it back? >> Do we know if he's going to come back after? >> I don't know. >> Okay. They were just curious and I thought I'd ask you be interesting to
know about that here. Um and the next meeting of the uh environmental commission is December 3rd and that's the extent our report. >> Thank you councilman. I'll turn to council president Jane Denobyl. >> Thank you mayor. So the shade tree
commission had a meeting yesterday. They had four applications. Three u one was 300 4th Avenue. They're removing one tree. They're planting two trees. 318 Lraine removing one, planting two trees. 200 Lraine are removing one dead tree
and 605 in the cave is removing two trees and replacing with two trees. The old days, these wouldn't have replacements. Now they're getting replaced. So, this is a wonderful thing. We're maintaining and expanding our tree canopy. Very important. They uh had the
grant of $40,000. They'll be doing the tree planting in the spring. No date is set just yet. Now, let's see. Board of Ed had a meeting October 23rd. Actually, we Sean and I had a meeting that night
with the Southern Mama elected women. So, I couldn't make it, but we did learn a lot and we traded notes with other towns like Spring Lake, um, Belmar, Avon. So, that was great. But um at the board of ed they had a presentation of the certificate of recognition of New
Jersey safe routs to school. Also they had a presentation of the 2025 2026 NJSLA scores and they also did the HIV self assessment presentation which is
harassment, intimidation and bullying. So um they they they have a a soul program where children learn how to respect other and it's a wonderful program and as you know it's a great school and uh the kids really respect each other there. It's lovely tourism.
Um they did not have a meeting since they had a special meeting but they want uh Amy Baker would like me to remind everybody the bonfire is the Friday after Thanksgiving uh November 28th. The time has not been set yet, but usually it's around 6 PM. And Sunday,
November 30th is the tree lighting, 400 pm. And December the 14th is a Sunday. We're going to have a Hanukkah celebration. We're going to be lighting the monora. We're going to have a silent disco and delicious foods and many
surprises. And that concludes my report. Thank you. >> Thank you, Council President and Councilman Noiki. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um, police report first. Um, most people have heard about this already, but um, interestingly, a
30-year-old Eaton Town man was arrested and charged with one count of firstdegree armed robbery after he robbed or chased a bank located 500 Main Street. Thanks to the swift action of the Bradley Beach Police Department and by the sea police departments which led
to his arrest prosecutor's office and the FBI red bank office were also involved in the investigation. So you never know what's going to happen Bradley. Um also during this time uh officers
investigate two more vehicle accidents and respond to several calls for service on the first aid report. Um the operational period ending November 6. The squad responded to 24 day calls, 14 night calls for a total of 38 calls. 26
were for medical and 12 were fire calls. The squad provided medical overwatch of the Bradley Beach trunkry as well as giving our treats out to ghosts and goblins. They did not need any assistance first aid wise. Uh the squad also participated in the fire
department's Halloween parade. The squad conducted one drill for the safety and education of the membership. The squad requested no mutual aid for the operational period. The squad fulfilled 100% of their assignments for the operational period. Total cost for the month of October 38 and five events and
they are always looking for volunteers to first aid squad free training for qualified individuals. Uh please check the website and uh Silven Lake. I talked much about this um just on Brady Boulevard. Uh that's the replacement on
Brandon Boulevard. Permits were submitted this this several weeks ago and that project seems to be on schedule. Um, and that's my report, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Councilman. Uh, for my report, I wanted to start out by giving
my congratulations to my colleague to my right and my two colleagues to the left and my soon to be future colleague uh, sitting right in front of me. Um, I know you guys ran unopposed. But uh you know, number one is still wonderful that
you've won. And maybe most importantly, I just want to acknowledge that you're all coming into C3, especially Mitch maybe a little less knowledgeable, but you guys are coming in eyes wide open and you still chose to run again. And I appreciate that because there really is a a strength of commitment that that you
need to do the the job you do. And having worked with you guys this year and looking forward to working with you next year, uh I can't I can't imagine a better team. So, congratulations. Um, number two, uh, I've got a list of three, so keep it as short as I can. Um,
as you're probably all aware, the governor declared a state of emergency due to, uh, you know, food insecurity now that the federal government is deadlocked over the budget and therefore, you know, the snap of food distributions have been kind of shut
down. Uh, because of this, you know, It's it's not that funny, but it it's a reality. Our um head of OEM, who handles emergencies and and declarations of states of emergency, called me and he
said, "Mayor, u I'm used to hurricanes and terrible accidents, whatever, but I'm not sure how to mobilize. What do we do to to address this state of emergency?" And uh and I told him honestly I I'm not sure myself but over this past week uh
I've been actively engaged in talking to uh the elementary school where we've got a lot of students who are are getting lunches and breakfast during the day but they don't get it on weekends for example they don't get an evening food that is in the school. Uh their families
their parents or or infant children that don't attend school they may have food shortage and maybe families in need. Um, and we have all these wonderful resources that, you know, that are available in general, but what I've been doing over the past week is trying to
mobilize these resources. So, working with the head of the food pantry, working with the superintendent of schools, uh, I've reached out to fellow mayors. The idea being um if they're interested as we come up with a plan, maybe we could do some leveraging of
that plan to multiple municipalities, get more opportunities to either create new donations for food directly to the food pantry or u uh financial donations, you know, someone who just wants to hand a check for $50 or hand in some food
gift certificates from a a stop and shop or so forth. So, we are uh working to rapidly organize around this. Uh you will hear a lot more probably over the next few days, certainly early next week. U we'll probably be asking folks
on on November 11th is Veterans Day, our Veterans Day celebration. We're probably going to ask folks to just bring canned goods, uh uh toiletries. Uh folks are really good typically about bringing food, but one of the things I've learned is there's a tremendous need for toilet
paper, toothpaste, things like that. So, uh don't limit yourselves to food. If you're able to donate, please consider, you know, all aspects of what a family might need. But anyway, there's a lot underway. You'll hear about it shortly. We'll be probably asking for financial as well as food donations. And we'll be
trying to leverage that effort across a number of municipalities in the area. And then finally, I just wanted to comment briefly on uh Mayor Anglestad's presentation to Mr. Weber. Um number one, Gary was eloquent, did a wonderful job capturing a lot of what John's
brought to our community. Uh but John, I want to make sure that you do plan to attend our meeting of December. We might have another recognition for you. So, >> okay, >> don't take December off. >> There's not good ways that these are at night.
So, uh, with that said, that concludes, uh, all of the mayor and council reports. And I will now make a motion and open up to say something really, really quick. Oh, please. >> So, I just want to thank, um, my deputy, Michelle Wy, also for election day because um, she was a very, very big
help and she usually is anyway, but I just want to say thank you. >> Thanks to Michelle and to you, Erica. >> You're always a huge help. Okay, Vanessa, we'll open it up to the public for comments and questions about anything your heart desires. Yes, in fact, I
do. >> Uh, I wouldn't say that too loud. >> We're on a recorded line. >> Yeah, really. >> Sorry. from Avenue. I'm just curious, is there any way that we could just have a food
drive for our school alone and not making sure these families get the benefit from the generosity of the residents in our town? Yeah, we're we're discussing what I've been referring to as kind of macro level
to just help the food pantry overall and a micro level to focus on our residents specifically families in the school and seniors that might be limited or shut. >> Absolutely. >> So, or possibly I didn't mention this. I plan to see if we can engage the meals
on wheels organization. They might be able to help us with deliveries. So, we're looking at all those. >> Okay. Okay. And it will be publicized how we can the nerve of our uh communications director. She actually took this week to
vacation in Florida also. >> She I've been communicating with her and we'll be we'll be ready to get word out. >> Okay. Thank you very much. Because I know as a resident and being a mother, we would all want to make sure these kids are fed. Thank you.
>> Thank you. Yes. Rick Harpal 116 New York. Uh my only concern or thing I would like to bring up is with all these new ordinances going in which I agree with now. How does one manage that? I don't know. We
have the infrastructure in the office to handle all that. First of all, you have to have the people coming in who who legally have whether they want their um their planting strips or the beach rentals and so forth. You have the
people that come in normally and they have the paperwork to go through that. Well, what about the enforcement for the people, let's say, who have parking who don't come in and register? Do we have backup on that? Do we have people who are following that? So that's my only
concern is we have enough in-house to handle all that along with the Airbnb program we have which you see how many people weren't registering on the Airbnbs and you have to go through all that. So I'm just want to bring that up that I hope we have enough back office
help in order to facilitate in all these ordinances. That's all I have. >> Thank you. The quick answer is yes. We we we uh our code enforcement officer who's key to a lot of what you just referenced, Mr. is uh full-time as of a
couple months ago. He's been with us for the majority of the year part-time. Uh but he's really ramped up and we've we've included all these different areas, construction and zoning and so forth to help us develop these changes to our ordinances. Um, I don't know if
anyone's noticed, but papa are being fixed in front of the bowling alley. I believe others are about to start on on Main Street at the south end of uh all of that from our code enforcement officer being out there identified to them that they have trip hazards with their favor. So, >> how about the rest of the sidewalks?
There a lot of sidewalks. >> We'll get to it. Okay. There's only so much we can do in a year, but we we are definitely making really good progress and uh I'm very pleased with the folks we brought in to help us execute on that. A lot of that goes to Majority who's helped me identify some of those
folks. Um other comments or questions? Yes. >> Uh Robert Costa 619th. I want to talk about uh the 48 hour parking in the last couple years. We've got
the last couple of months, two visits from the police saying we had to move our car when we hadn't even been parked for 24 hours in the same place. It was simply because someone called and complained. One of them said, "I didn't
want you parking in front of our house." And that was during the construction when we couldn't park in front of our house. Uh, and it's just really an antiquated and really not usable. I'm in violation right now. because I work at home and I sensibly travel. So, I'm
always constantly leaving my car and I don't have a driver. I can't park anywhere but on the street. So it seems like it's either in its execution in terms of enforcement maybe instead of just assuming the party is guilty and
asking them to move the car which the officer both times said you have to move the car or say you're going to move the car or they come and mark the car and wait 48 hours and then do or maybe more
effectively put a sticker that for residents fulltime residents would be able to place on a car that allows them to park on the street. Period. It's just 48 hours. It's really
completely ridiculous. I would say from my experience living here for almost 20 years as well as being on the council for five. I have not been aware of strict enforcement of 48 hours for the reasons you're saying. Right. Uh we are I I would say the police are much stricter in their
enforcement of two hours on Main Street. But I want to turn it over to the captain over there, Captain Browning, just Terry to get your opinion because I'm especially surprised to hear you say somebody would tell you move if you hadn't even been there 24 48 hours. >> They just call and say that they're
violating. We the the police department doesn't proactively like look for every car that's out there and and try to figure out if you're there for your house. We respond when somebody complains and we have to if somebody complains and says whatever their
motives are. If they call and say, "Hey, there's a car that's been parked in front of my house or it's been parked in this spot for lots of times they say weeks or 10 days or month." We'll come and we'll just simply, you know, find out who the owner is, knock on your door and say, "Hey, listen. We got a
complaint that has been here. We just have to make sure it moves." And by moves, it just has to move, you know, a foot or two in whatever direction. If you're not there, we leave a warning notice on it that just says >> the the only time we proactively look for that is during patrols. If we see a
car that has piles of leaves around with, you know, grass growing or just clearly has not moved, flat tire or stuff like that, then we'll we'll probably that's very very small amount of time. >> You know, usually it's just a complaint. And unfortunately, it is usually a
neighbor that just doesn't like the car being in their spot or too close to whatever. And we can't really control that. We have to call, you know, we have to respond to the call. >> Captain, what I'm hearing, I'm curious. If this gentleman saying he's been there 24 hours and a neighbor says he's been
there at 48, >> do the police confirm that? >> It's a presumption of guilt that really gets to me that we have to move the car because somebody lied instead of you guys saying the car. >> I'm his wife, so I just want to tell you
what happened. My neighbor didn't know we got a new car. So she said, "I didn't know you got a new car." So, I called because I was parked too close to some shrubs. She had thrown out. The policeman came to my door on a Sunday
morning at 8:00. I was sleeping. I was a nervous wreck to have a cop come to my door. And he said, "You have to," and I get, "You have to move your car. My car." I said, "I was at the hospital yesterday. My sister had been in the hospital." He said, "She called. You
have to move your car." So, something's wrong. I get >> Yeah, there is a warning. It's If we are if we receive a complaint, we're required by the ordinance to just make sure that that card is sitting there. I mean, maybe the presentation of you have to move your car like right this minute.
Maybe that was a misinterpretation. You have to move it at some point. >> You did say, you know, you have to have your car, but I don't want someone coming to my door at 8:00 in the morning when in fact I did nothing wrong and just scam. There's something wrong with the ordinance is what I'm saying. I don't blame the police. We we do have we
do have reoccurring times where there is just the car that seems to be there all the time or if there is like a neighbor thing and once we're there enough times we kind of realize like our officers will be able to say yes that's you know headquarters that's the car that's
always in front of the house you know I was there last week or I was there yesterday it moved we don't have to bother you but if again if they call it you know whenever they call they call I mean if they call it like 4 in the morning, we're not going to knock on your door till later on, we'll leave it for the day shift to do. But I mean, if
they call, you know, 7 8 9:00 in the morning, we >> I guess maybe in my mind, the execution should be that you note the car was there, come back 48 hours and that's the assumption appeal because you proved it. >> Well, that you're assuming the caller is
always right and we're always wrong. >> Well, it's not that we're assuming that one's right or wrong. is we're just doing our due diligence and making sure that notification's made. So, if we just drop a note on there and then you don't see it or you move the car but don't take the note off, we don't want to do
that. We want to make sure that we're not towing or ticketing residents cars without making sure we find them. >> Well, can we look at the ordinance then? >> If I can, Mr. Mayor, I happen to agree that it's problematic that it's complaint. So, I completely agree that.
So, let's just let's just face fact the neighbors sort of speaking to their neighbor but through the police. >> So when the police come out if the if the people that have been accused say no I just parked there this morning or like what you know like I think it's incumbent on the police to communicate
that back to the original person that complained and and just say but if it's there for 48 hours from now on then then the police will do something and that's fair to the accuses and the accuser and all that. So as soon as CO happened, I remember thinking and remember saying to
our former chief police, the 48 hour it's something's got to get because it doesn't make sense anymore. The entire landscape of work had changed and people work from home and and um it's it's going to become problematic >> and in general I mean we do not have a
driveway. So for us to go on a vacation and have to worry that we have to move our car before, you know, have someone move our car, >> you should call the police. >> Yeah. If you ever do go on vacation, you can call let us know and we will note that there if any we just we just have
it. We don't bother >> and and this is not the first time that this has come up because I've had someone who has come to me and um we have this discussion. You know, many of us will, you know, leave leave our cars on the street for a few days at a time and then we move them, you know. So, is
there an interest maybe in changing it from 48 hours to a little bit longer than that? >> Well, there's so many questions here. One is, you know, one of enforcement, one is how you legislate it, no matter what you change it to, you know, you got
a more consistent enforcement perhaps. But if you wouldn't mind leaving one of your names with a contact number, what I'll try to do is get uh Captain Brown and Chief Arnold to sit down with us and maybe like conference call you can come to the office, but we'll just talk through how can we all agree on it maybe
more consistent approach enforcement. Sure. >> Yeah, that would be we would appreciate >> I mean it was only one time that this only occurred one time. >> You just got one because of the construction on fifth. We couldn't park in front of our house. So we left >> and we confronted the guy and he said,
"Well, don't park in front of my house." That was his reply and it was less than 24 hours. >> But if somebody if if your car is like parked in front of your own house, it's rare that it'll it'll be a reoccurring problem unless there is some sort of >> But the point is we you never know.
Someone could be annoyed or someone could you know >> I think I think the council agrees with you. So if you leave us a contact, >> we'll we'll invite you to >> you just emailed me. So I was emailing >> perfect is enough.
>> Thank you. >> Thank you. I was very very valid concern. Any other comments or questions? Anyone left on Zoom? >> All right. I see I see no other hands out and I've lost my gender but I
>> did the record. >> We have we have no executive session. So I will make a motion to close the meeting. >> There's no >> I know there change or battery so I no time is better than the wrong time.
>> Do you have a second? >> Oh second. Thank you. All in >> favor I meeting is a journ. Thank you. 6:30 hours. Am I crazy? Are you crazy? actually I checked it like four times like I know
The people the people are so obedient. >> But in some districts so different Five.